Jan
Formula Iron Lot
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Formula Iron Lot
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 Lot of 8 Cans Enfamil Premium Infant Formula 0 12 mo milk based w iron 13oz $25.00 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 35m |
 Similac Advance Infant Formula With Iron 124 oz LOT OF 3 $59.99 Time Remaining: 25d 1h 8m Buy It Now for only: $59.99 |
 Enfamil Premium Infant Formula with IRON LOT of 6 Cans of 125oz each $60.00 Time Remaining: 2d 28m |
 LOT OF 9 SIMILAC ADVANCE EARLY SHIELD COMPLETE NUTRITION INFANT FORMULA W IRON $65.00 Time Remaining: 6d 9h 27m |
Breastmilk or formula- nutritional value ?
Ok, I ahve read that breastmilk's nutritional value is proportionate to the mother's diet. I am thinking that there are LOTS of women out there who have a very poor diet so I have no idea what kind of nutrients their milk contain.
Take the undernurished mothers in africa for instance. Would their babies be better off with formula, which for better or worse contains a lot of nutrients, or is breastfeeding still preferred though the mother's diet is poor?
Along the same lines, if a mother has an iron defficiency for instance, does that mean her breastmilk doesn't supply the required amount of iron either? Should she supplement with formula (iron-fortified or not)?
what are your thoughts?
Do I need to maintain a perfect diet while breastfeeding?
The short answer to this question is NO – you do not need to maintain a perfect diet in order to provide quality milk for your baby. In fact, research tells us that the quality of a mother’s diet has little influence on her milk. Nature is very forgiving – mother’s milk is designed to provide for and protect baby even in times of hardship and famine. A poor diet is more likely to affect the mother than her breastfed baby.
http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/mom/mom-diet.html
There is a widely held belief that the composition of breastmilk varies enormously. This is not so. Human breastmilk has a fairly constant composition, and is only selectively affected by the diet of the mother. One litre of milk provides about 750 calories and contains approximately the following:
· 70 g carbohydrate,
· 46 g fat,
· 13 g protein,
· 300 mg calcium,
· 2 mg iron,
· 480 µg vitamin A,
· 0.2 mg thiamine,
· 0.4 mg riboflavin,
· 2 mg niacin,
· 40 mg vitamin C.
The fat content of breastmilk varies somewhat. The carbohydrate, protein, fat, calcium and iron contents do not change much even if the mother is short of these in her diet. A mother whose diet is deficient in thiamine and vitamins A and C, however, produces less of these in her milk. Thiamine deficiency in the lactating mother can lead to infantile beriberi in the baby (see Chapter 16). In general the effect of very poor nutrition on a lactating woman is to reduce the quantity rather than the quality of breastmilk.
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/W0073e/w0073e03.htm#P982_135366
